Spliced leader (SL) mediated RNA trans-splicing has been identified in diverse dinoflagellate species, including the coral symbiont, Symbiodinium microadriaticum. During the process of SL trans-splicing, first described ...

Habitat loss and degradation often negatively impact reptiles and amphibians. Understanding how human-induced habitat changes impact herpetofauna is crucial for effective conservation and management of their populations. ...

The South Carolina Lowcountry has experienced significant population growth and urban and suburban development in the past few decades, which is caused mainly by in&ndash;migration. This thesis analyzes the community and ...

The goal of federal fisheries management is to "achieve and maintain, on a continuing basis, the optimum yield from each fishery" so fisheries can provide public benefit to current stakeholders and future generations ...

In the United States, interactions between the shrimp trawl fishery and bottlenose dolphins (<italic>Tursiops truncatus</italic>) are known to exist, however the level of mortality is largely unknown. The current study ...

The treatment of the black patients at the South Carolina State Hospital from 1900-1963 reflected the local, regional, and national political and social ideas about race and demonstrated the lengths that whites would go ...

Land use and land cover changes have been impacting the hydrologic processes of coastal-plain watersheds of the southeastern United States. To better understand effects of land use change on these watershed processes, it ...

Red porgy, Pagrus pagrus, is a protogynous hermaphroditic reef fish that associates with hard-bottom habitats in temperate waters. Red porgy has been a recreational and commercially important species over the past 30 years, ...

Following the Sepoy Rebellion (1857), India's architecture came to play a key role in Britons' quest for knowledge and comprehension of India and Indians. For this reason, British perceptions of the subcontinent's architecture ...

Environmental disasters have the ability to place significant amounts of stress on an individual's normal day to day life. Increases in social conflict can be a result of the existence of additional stressors long after ...

Hammock islands are low-elevation landforms in coastal marshes that host high biodiversity. Global sea level rise projections over the next century are at levels that will likely inundate many hammock islands. This ...

The effects of emerging contaminants on the immune system of mammals are poorly understood, with limited information available about the immunotoxicological effects of perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and DE-71, a ...

Reducing variability in a hospital's census improves the efficiency of the hospital and reduces the overall operating cost. A deterministic and stochastic four stage model is created for the purpose of modeling the hospital ...

Geographic patterns of body size are of particular interest to biologists because they suggest a correlation between local environmental conditions and phenotypic expression. Bergmann's rule is a widely observed latitudinal ...

The Pacific whiteleg shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei, inhabits coastal and estuarine waters, which are prone to intermittent bouts of low oxygen (hypoxia) and high carbon dioxide (hypercapnia). The current study assesses the ...

This study argues that the Protestant discourse on demonic temptation in sixteenth-century England played a role in shaping Reginald Scot's skepticism of magic, witchcraft, and corporeal demons. I develop witchcraft historian ...

Sallie Chapin's professional career provided her with the platform to use rhetoric to negotiate gender and race in the New South. Chapin negotiated gender by affirming the female role of home protector and demonstrating ...

Anthropogenic modifications of the coastal environment can significantly impact the physical characteristics and the biological communities of sandy beaches. This study examined how changes in the amount and the size of ...

Zoos and aquariums play an important role in exposing the public to the natural world and offer encounters not traditionally found outside of environmental education settings. Such exposure can modify one's opinions, ...

Spotted seatrout Cynoscion nebulosus are commonly infected by three species of parasites in South Carolina estuaries: the myxosporeans Kudoa inornata (in skeletal muscle) and Henneguya cynoscioni (in the bulbus arteriosus), ...